The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has trained refugees and host communities in the Rhino camp and Palorinya refugee settlement in West Nile region. Through its West Nile Regional Office ...

(Kampala) – Uganda should quickly adopt and put into effect a new law to protect everyone from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment, at work, Human Rights Watch said today.

In a world teetering on the complex politics of international relations, the Government of Uganda’s decision not to extend the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) mandate sparked ...

Dr. Kizza Besigye, a prominent opposition figure, has raised concerns about the current state of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), stating that its organs are dysfunctional and unable to ...

The consideration and passage by Uganda's government of one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws have unleashed a torrent of ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

Twenty-year-old could face death penalty after anti-LGBTQ+ legislation was introduced this year Ugandan prosecutors have charged a man with “aggravated homosexuality” under anti-LGBTQ+ ...

It was the one place she should have been safe. Monalisa’s small apartment was on the third floor of a tidy building in Buziga, a sleepy suburb a few miles south of the Ugandan capital Kampala. In ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Two men in Uganda are the first to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality," which carries the death penalty under a new anti-gay law passed in May. Homosexuality was already ...

This is the largest number of countries pushing for these laws in recent years. The trend contrasts with the decision by ...

In the upsurge of laws and policies targeting homosexuality, the plight of victims is often forgotten. In most of Africa - 33 out of 55 countries - homosexuality is a crime punishable by imprisonment.